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Courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit dedicated to recording and collecting stories of everyday people. www.storycorps.org. Any other uses of this material--for commercial or non-commercial distribution, editing, exhibition, publishing, publicly performing, publicly displaying, reproducing on a website, or quotation beyond "fair use"--requires the permission of StoryCorps. For clearance, please contact StoryCorps at http://storycorps.org/about/inquiries/.

InterviewDateTime

10/11/2010 15:30:00

InterviewLocation

Chauvin, LA

Venue

MobileBooth West

StorytellerA-FullName

Verdin, Tanya

Relationship_OfStorytellerA

niece

InterviewerA-FullName

Bennett, Effie

Relationship_OfInterviewerA

aunt

Facilitator

Melzer, Eloise

Facilitator Log

5:00 One of TV's saddest moments was getting teased on the bus on the way to school. One of her happiest moments was during a band performance. 10:13 TV remembers packing up her house and evacuating during the hurricane. They had to leave their dog Scooter behind, but her parents went back in a boat and rescued Scooter a few days later. 23:00 TV describes her first airplane ride: 'I was a wreck!' 33:17 EB recalls a traumatic event when a boat with 40 people going to church capsized in the bayou. Some of her relatives died. 36:52 EB describes the way Baptist baptisms took place in the bayou when she was young.

Courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit dedicated to recording and collecting stories of everyday people. www.storycorps.org. Any other uses of this material--for commercial or non-commercial distribution, editing, exhibition, publishing, publicly performing, publicly displaying, reproducing on a website, or quotation beyond "fair use"--requires the permission of StoryCorps. For clearance, please contact StoryCorps at http://storycorps.org/about/inquiries/.